Science and Our Food Supply: Investigating Food Safety from Farm to Table

ADVANCE PREPARATION

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Read the game instructions. 

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Make one copy of the two-page Lose a  

Million Bacteria game template for each team.  

Note: You may wish to copy/print the  

pages back-to-back and fold the template  

booklet-style.

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MIDDLE LEVEL

E

EVALUATION

LOSE A MILLION BACTERIA 

THE GAME

PROCEDURE

DAY

1

CREATE THE QUESTIONS   

1. 

Divide students into 5 teams, representing each of the 5 

Science and Our Food Supply modules — Understanding 

Bacteria, Farm, Processing and Transportation, Retail and 

Home, and Outbreak and Future Technology. 

2. 

Give each team 1 game template. 

3. 

Challenge each team to create 8 questions for their  

module based on what they learned from the video,  

activities, and labs. Create 2 very easy, 2 easy,  

2 moderate, and 2 challenging questions. 

4. 

Have teams write their questions on the template in an 

order ranging from very easy to challenging. 

5. 

Write the correct and incorrect answers in the  

alphabetical spaces provided on the template. 

6. 

Review the questions and answers with each team and 

help them select 4 questions (very easy, easy, moderate, 

and challenging) to be used for the game. Then, write 

the correct answers for these questions in the Answer 

Key on the back of the template. 

7. 

On Day 2 of the game, each team will conduct the  

Lose a Million Bacteria game based on the questions 

they’ve created and selected for their module. Have the 

teams decide what roles their fellow teammates will play  

(e.g., asking questions, selecting contestants, displaying 

questions, holding up signs, etc.). 

8. 

Have each team prepare overhead slides or signs for  

each question, and signs for applause, winner, bacterial  

levels, etc. 

9. 

On Day 2, they’re ready to play the game!